Syntopical Reading, Great Ideas & The Great Conversation @ Comprehensivist Weds

What is Syntopical Reading & how can it transform your reading?
Lessons from How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

See: https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/0671212095/

Here is a detailed presentation on How to Read a Book: https://youtu.be/bLyf05pbKuE

What is the Great Conversation? What is the Syntopicon? Why is it the most effective way of acquiring a Liberal Education through Self Study?
Lessons from Great Ideas: a Lexicon of Western Thought by Mortimer Adler

See: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Lexicon-Western-Thought/dp/0025005731/

Here is an overview of Great Ideas and a presentation on the idea of Honor: https://youtu.be/90wEruDsMro

Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

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A Meetup Every Day, Every Week, For Everyone!
Every Weekday at 9pm ET; On Weekends at 2:30pm ET

We record all our Meetups and post them on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer. Watch Past Meetups at: https://www.youtube.com/c/52LivingIdeas?sub_confirmation=1